Indian Medicine Central Council Act, 1970
16. Recognition of medical qualifications granted
by medical institutions in countries with which there is a scheme of
reciprocity
(1) The medical qualifications granted by
medical institutions outside India which are included in
the Fourth Schedule shall be recognized medical qualifications for the purposes
of this Act.
(2) The Central Council may enter into
negotiations with the authority in any State or country outside India, which,
by the law of such State or country is entrusted with the maintenance of a
Register of practitioners of Indian medicine, for the settling of a scheme of
reciprocity for the recognition of medical qualifications in Indian medicine,
and in pursuance of any such scheme, the Central Government may, by
notification in the Official Gazette, amend the Fourth Schedule so as to
include therein any medical qualification which the Central Council has decided
should be recognized, and any such notification may also direct that an entry
shall be made in the last column of the Fourth Schedule against such medical
qualification declaring that it shall be recognized medical qualification only
when granted after a specified date.